Plenary Lectures @
Ecotrib 2023
Giuseppe Carbone
Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Short CV
Giuseppe Carbone received the MSc Mechanical Engineering Degree on February 1998 and in February 2002 the Ph. D. degree in Advanced Production Systems at Politecnico di Bari (Italy). He is currently Full Professor of Applied Mechanics, Head of the Department of Mechanics Mathematics and Management at Politecnico di Bari (IT) and President of the Italian Association of Tribology. In 2010 he founded the Tribology Lab at Politecnico di Bari (IT). He has been Visiting Scientist at the Juelich Research Center (D) and at the Eindhoven University of Technology (NL). He is currently permanent academic visitor at the Imperial College London and visiting scholar at University of North Texas. His scientific interests focus mainly on tribology, viscoelastic materials, contact mechanics, adhesion, biomimetics, superhydrophobicity, mechanical transmissions. Since 2015, he has been working on swarm intelligence and specifically on the mechanisms enabling the emergence of collective Intelligence in complex systems. His research has been funded over the years with more than € 8 million. He serves as Associate Editor of Chaos Solitons and Fractals (Elsevier), and of Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering (Tribology Section). He is member of the Editorial Board of (i) Tribology International, (ii) Biomimetics, (iii) ISRN Tribology. He also served as Guest Editor, of Biomimetics, Coatings, Lubricants, and Applied Science. His H-index is 38 (source: Scopus). He authored about 270 publications, of which about 170 in archive journals indexed in Scopus and ISI Web of Science.
Short CV
Nicholas Spencer was born in the UK, and educated in Cambridge before leaving to the USA for a postdoc in Berkeley and a decade in the US chemical industry. For the last thirty years he has been Professor of Surface Science and Technology at ETH Zurich, working on topics ranging from hip implants, through polymer brushes to lubricant additives. He is Editor-in-Chief of Tribology Letters, and the winner of the 2018 Tribology Gold Medal.
Nicholas Spencer
Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mitjan Kalin
Laboratory for tribology and interface nanotechnology-TINT, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Short CV
Dr Kalin’s areas of research are the wear and friction mechanisms of advanced materials, nanoscale interface phenomena, and boundary films for novel green-lubrication technologies, including his recognized contribution to the lubrication of DLC coatings. He has given 55 invited lectures world-wide and has published over 170 peer-reviewed journal papers with 4000 citations and an H-index of 36. He also published 10 book chapters, 3 books and holds 11 patents, including USA and EU patents. In his career he has led 40 large, 3-year projects, half of them international. He also collaborated in industrial projects with renowned companies in Europe, Japan and the USA in over 150 R&D projects. He has received several awards, including the ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award (2006) and Fellow of STLE (2012). He is a member of International Engineering Academy and Slovenian Academy of Engineering. Since 2012 he serves as the Editor of Lubrication Science. He is a Full Professor and was a Dean at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, in term of 2017-2021, where he is also the Head of the Laboratory for Tribology and Interface Nanotechnology. He is also elected the Executive Board Member and Deputy President of the International Tribology Council (ITC).
Short CV
Current Position and Education: 1980 – 2022 Research Scientist, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, 2016 – 2022 CEO Multiscale Consulting, Wolfshovener str 2, Jülich, Germany, 1975 – 1980 Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, Tekn. dr. (Ph.D.) in Mathematical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics
1971 – 1975 Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, Civ. ing. in Technical Physics (M. Sc. Engineer)
Awards: VOLVO Prize in Physics, Sweden, 1981, The 1996 Walter-Schottky-Prize of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, The John Yarwood Memorial Medal for 1997, Annual Address to the British Vacuum Council 1997, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award 2004, 2007 and 2009, Reinhart Koselleck Project, DFG 2014, The Adhesion Society Award of Excellence 2022, The Tire Society Lifetime Achievement Award 2022, The Tribology Gold Medal 2022.
Research interest: Tribology (sliding friction, vacuum friction, ice friction, adhesion, contact mechanics, fracture), Heat transfer (heat transfer between weakly coupled systems, influence of surface roughness,
applications to graphene), Surface science (surface spectroscopies, phase transitions at surfaces, energy transfer and dynamical processes at surfaces), Small particle systems (optical properties, SERS), Biophysics in particular biotribology (skin friction, adhesion of insects, geckos and tree frogs, adhesion of cellulose fibers in paper, photosynthesis, muscle contraction, shape fluctuations in globular protein molecules)
Books: Sliding Friction: Physical Principles and Applications, Springer, 1997 (516 pages), Physics of Sliding Friction (Nato Science Series E), Springer, 1996 (460 pages), Electromagnetic Fluctuations at the Nanoscale Scale, Springer, 2017 (438 pages)
Publications: About 500 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals
Bo N. J. Persson
Juelich Research Center – Germany
Bharat Bhushan
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
Short CV
Dr. Bharat Bhushan is presently an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2), and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2013-14, he served as ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He has served as Expert Investigator on IP related issues in the U.S. and International Courts. His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics. He is an internationally recognized expert of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy, and biomimetics. He has authored 10 scientific books, 100+ handbook chapters, 900+ scientific papers (One of Google Scholar’s 1494 Highly Cited Researchers in All Fields (h>100), h-index – 130+ with 80k+ citations, i10-index – 780+; Fourth Highly Cited Researcher in Mechanical Eng.; Web of Science h-index – 98+; Scopus h-index – 105+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry, 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry, 2011; Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-field Category, 2018), and 60+ technical reports. His research was listed as the Top Ten Science Stories of 2015. He has also edited 50+ books and holds more than 25 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Technologies. He has given more than 400 invited presentations on six continents and more than 400 keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences. He delivered a TEDx 2019 lecture on Lessons from Nature.
